THE GENERAL | Lisandro Rodríguez

Original title: The General

Year: 1926

Length: 74 min.

Country: United States

Direction: Buster Keaton y Clyde Bruckman

Screenplay: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman

Genre: Comedy

Synopsis: Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton) is a machinist in a Southern state and has two great loves: a girl (Anabelle Lee) and a locomotive (The General). In 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War, Johnny tries to enlist, but the army thinks he will be more useful working in the rear. However, Anabelle thinks he is a coward and rejects him. The engineer will only be able to prove his true worth when a Northronist commando infiltrating the Confederate lines steals ‘The General’ from him and kidnaps Anabelle. Johnny won’t hesitate for a second to jump on another locomotive and chase the Yankees to get his two sweethearts back.

LISANDRO RODRÍGUEZ, piano

Lisandro Rodríguez was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1971.

A self-taught musician, he began his career as a composer in 2003, where his music also covered different fields, from song making and arrangements for artists, advertising, series, musicals and rock operas.

His musical career has been consolidated mainly in neoclassical and experimental music, as well as composition for film where his work has received excellent reviews in the national and international press.

Nominated four times for the ‘Jerry Goldsmith Awards’.